In addition to the Memory Clinic, the Alzheimer Support Group, Pune initiative includes guidance and counselling, memory improvement and memory exercise programs, and caregiver support group meetings. You can also contact Ms. Mangala Joglekar at +91 90110 39345, email: mangal.joglekar@gmail.com or visit their website at alzsupportpune.org Opens in new window (This includes Marathi content)One very valuable resource listing for caregivers is available at the site at this link Opens in new window. It includes Marathi content.

Poona Hospital and Research Centre was earlier running a memory clinic in collaboration with Easai Pharma (the “memory clinic” is listed on the Easai site). While it is not clear whether the Poona Hospital memory clinic is still functioning, you can contact them to find out about their available services related to dementia and caregiving support.

Monet House, Epoch Elder Care: This is a very small-capacity, very high-priced assisted living facility in Kharadi, Pune. They accept elders who need help with activities of daily living, including persons with dementia. They provide person-centric care and basic nursing support. The admission process includes discussions and counselling to ensure that the person will fit at the facility and can be given suitable care by the Epoch team. Contact them to know more, schedule a viewing, and to evaluate for suitability and reliability, etc.

Tapas Elder Care : This 24×7 care home accepts persons with dementia for short and long term stay. They provide person-centric care, have activities regularly, and have the support and advice of experts and doctors. Contact them to know more, and to evaluate for suitability and reliability, etc. May have day care Note that all day cares were closed during COVID lockdown. Please contact individual entities directly about their current status and also the measures they follow/ plan to follow to ensure safety of persons using the facility.

Note that all day cares were closed during COVID lockdown. Please contact individual entities directly about their current status and also the measures they follow/ plan to follow to ensure safety of persons using the facility.

Madhurbhav (AJ Foundation) is a relatively old entity in elder care, which also offers residential care dementia. Visit their website Opens in new window. Facebook presence is at www.facebook.com/MadhurBhav/ and https://www.facebook.com/pages/Madhurbhav-Old-Age-Home/206414583160804 Their contact, as per their site, is +91 9850016669, +91 8805501600, +91 9921059898 Email: ajfoundation05@gmail.com

Some caregivers have mentioned Rainbow Day Care as a day care for elders that accepts persons with dementia. See their Facebook page Opens in new window. Contact 093733 14849

Another name mentioned by some caregivers for day care is Ananddham, Jyestha Nagrik Virangula Kendra.

Aditya Birla Memorial Hospital has organized dementia-related events in the past, and is a possible dementia resource.

Additional Listings: Organizations providing services to support home care

One very valuable resource listing for caregivers, which includes nursing bureaus, is available at the Alzheimer Support Group Pune’s site at this link Opens in new window.

Some multi-city organizations that may be offering support in Pune. Please note, service that is good in one city may not be good in another. Typical services to ask about: home nursing (attendants, nurses, wound care and nursing procedures), physiotherapy, doctor visits, home dental care, sample collections, equipment hire, pharmacy at home, etc. Some of them may claim to support dementia care. List below is alphabetically orderedHealthCare atHOME (HCAH): (Noida-based)( by the Burman family (Dabur) and the founders of Healthcare At Home (HAH), UK) Contact 1800-102-4224 Website https://hcah.in/ India Home Health Care (IHHC): (Chennai based) (partner of BAYADA Home Health Care) Contact +91 76764 33333 (Whatsapp +91-7755912869). Website http://www.indiahomehealthcare.com Nightingales Home Health Services (NHHS): (Bangalore-based Medwell Ventures, Mahindra collaboration) Contact 1800 103 4530. Website https://www.nightingales.in/ [Portea : (Bangalore-based) Contact 1800 121 2323 Website portea.com

Unfortunately, it is very difficult to get trained attendants, and many families use general attendants and train them on dementia themselves or with the help of volunteers. Even attendants trained by agencies for dementia often need additional training. Read a detailed discussion on this topic at: Using Trained Attendants for Dementia Home Care. Also, please ensure that you evaluate any service/ facility before using it.

Additional Listings: Important organizations working for seniors

Prominent organizations working for seniors are (alphabetic order):

Dignity Foundation: This Mumbai-based organization works for senior citizens through initiatives in some large cities. The Pune office is at Savio Villa, 78/4, Divya Nagar, Near Jambhulkar chowk, Wanawadi, Pune – 411040. Tel: 020-26851221 / 8600012444 (Working Mon-Fri, working hours only) Email: dignitypune@gmail.com, Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/DignityFoundation Website : http://www.dignityfoundation.com (The old page at https://www.facebook.com/Punedignity is no longer being used)

An additional service in Pune is Mayacare, which has volunteers who help elders/ disabled persons by providing assistance/ company for outdoor services like shopping, visiting the bank, doctors, social functions, etc., doing transactions like applying for gas connections or preparing affidavits. Contact them using their Faceboook page Opens in new window or their email id: service@mayacare.com. The Pune contact numbers: +91- 9552510411/9552510400

A list of local services can usually be obtained by surfing the Internet using keywords and the name of the city, and looking for various types of services. Most cities will have some home care services, old age homes, nursing agencies, etc. The larger hospitals of the city will usually have memory clinics, geriatric clinics, or geriatric psychiatry clinics to help the initial diagnosis of dementia. Search for these combined with your city name and other such phrases.

Use various combinations and alternate city names for more suitable results.For example, you may look for Pune, Poona, Puna , or whatever else you consider useful. Search using locality names also.

Updates/ fresh data on dementia support facilities/ services may also be available from the National Dementia Helpline ( ﻿0484-277-5088). E-mail: ndh@ardsi.org) or other helplines handled by the ARDSI National Office (﻿09846198471,09846198786, 09846198473)

The reception/ nurses at local hospitals often know about agencies that supply attendants/ nurses for home care.

Many large path lab services also provide home pickup of blood samples.

Many neighborhood path labs and small clinics are able to send nurses home for some minor procedures, like IV. Some even have contacts of doctors who may be willing to make home visits (you must satisfy yourself about the quality and reliability)

Also note, contact numbers and addresses keep changing. If you have an problems old number/ name of hospital/ doctor, etc., get the latest details using local telephone inquiry/ assistance services.

Disclaimer:Data on this page is provided for information and convenience, and is not an endorsement for any person/ organization/ service/ resource. We make no claims that the contents of this page are either accurate or complete, or that the persons/ organizations listed are reliable or that they are suitable for you (no fitment for purpose is intended or implied).

Page/ post last updated on: June 3, 2020

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13 thoughts on “Resources for dementia care: Pune (Maharashtra)”

Sorry , I dont think ‘Jagruti Rehab’ is ideal place for person with dementia and Alzheimer’s . They keep schizophrenia and other ‘mental’ illness together.
Person with dementia/Alzheimer’s cant be treated and kept with other mental illness people. They have different need , care givers , age and standard of care .
Person with dementia/Alzheimer’s its more Care then Cure that works .
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Dr. Amar Shinde of Jagruti has written to clarify that they have separate wards for dementia. To quote: “at Jagruti, we are having separate dementia ward with mostly patients in moderate to severe stages of dementia… we have currently 30-40 dementia patients, many of them are incontinent, violent, not eating, poor self care…. we provide persistent care, supervision & 24 hrs medical care….” and “its a rehab for three different sections, psychiatry, de-addiction & dementia currently… we are trying to provide as much homely environment as possible with all facilities of hospital… dementia patients may require lot of medical care” (Clarification was given on Facebook on June 27, 2013)

Hello this is Dr Amar Shinde (Neuro-Psychiatrist)
I visited last month Kinoko Espoir Hospital & Soujashi-Yamate welfare center, Okayama, Japan, which are the dedicated facilities for dementia & geriatrics. They have very good facility & very young attendants working with the dementia patients. For Dementia patients good hygiene, food & exercise are the most important things to improve their quality of life than medicines. We are working on their protocol currently at Jagruti Dementia Care.

As the result of a discussion on our Facebook page for care families we have the name of an agency for Home care staff, recommended by a service user in Pune, that I’d like to share here … HEMA, an agency that operates out of Tingre Nagar run by a lady called Jothi and her son Vikram. Phone +919226845318. It is important that any person aiming to hire from this or any other agency does verify the appropriateness and desired quality level of attendant for themselves. Would like to add here a link to our Facebook page for caregivers as well :- http://www.facebook.com/groups/105789559517480/537930892970009/?ref=notif&notif_t=like

Presently i am M.E student. I am working on automatic diagnosis of Alzheimer disease using EEG signals. I am in search of medical research center where exactly the diagnosis of this disease is actually done………..pls suggest any research center in pune or mumbai……..

I don’t know what you mean by “exactly the diagnosis of this disease is actually done” and am unaware of any approved definite and “automatic” diagnosis criteria of AD without autopsy. However, you can contact senior consultants at any major hospital’s neurology/ psychiatry department to get in touch with doctors who do AD diagnosis. The Pune and Mumbai pages on this site have some possible contacts. You can also contact ARDSI Mumbai or ARDSI Greater Mumbai; check our Mumbai page at: http://dementiacarenotes.in/resources/city-wise/dementia-mumbai/

OK thank you for your reply……….automatic diagnosis means that early detection of disease in early stage….by analyzing the EEG waveform & automatically doing engineering application we can detect the disease……

Okay. Could you please give any reference you have for “automatic diagnosis” using EEG. So far, the only certain and approved definite diagnosis for AD is after an autopsy, though there is some proposals on whether biomarkers can be used for this when the person is still alive. Is EEG analysis one such research direction?

Hi Dear Nilesh & Respected Swapna,
Nilesh, great thinking for early diagnosis Of Dementia.
But EEG is not providing much information for Dementia, Currently we diagnose Dementia on MRI & clinical Examination,
But yes we can go for it as some changes in EEG can suggest it.
We have lots of patients of Dementia Both OPD & IPD (40-50 patients at a time) basis.
Also currently we have Dr Sujit Jagtap MBBS, DM(Neurology), Special Fellowship in Epilepsy Joined our Center as Consultant Neurologist with a good EEG Lab & good Experience with lots of papers published in National & International Conferences
You can Visit @ Jagruti Rehabilitation center, Pune for further Information, or Call Me on 09371425026
Regards Dr Amar Shinde Consultant Psychiatrist

Dr.Amar Sir can i visit your rehabilitation center. Or can i have a permission to meet you ? i want to see the eeg lab as you mentioned in your reply. also i would like to meet Dr.sujit jagtap…………..pls i want to the eeg lab.

material for automated diagnosis includes the IEEE, springer papers & some scope for future directions as given by researchers.

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